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`request.addfinalizer` order of execution is undocumented

See original GitHub issue

This is very important if you are creating fixtures which interact with others which were not written with yield, and is extra confusing when writing tests which themselves do use yield.

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nicoddemuscommented, Jun 7, 2022

Yeah, sounds great, thanks. I think just a paragraph stating that they are executed in first-in-last-out order is enough. 👍

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aizpurua23acommented, Jul 26, 2022

Hey eveyrone! I haven’t seen progress on this issue for some time, so I took the liberty to try and address it on https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/10171.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on it 🙏

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